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ED BROWN
EDWARD M. BROWN. WHO WAS THIS MAN...AND WHERE ON EARTH DID HE COME FROM? WAS HE MORE THAN JUST PROPRIETOR OF A GARAGE? WAS HE ALWAYS SO GRUMPY?
ED BROWN WAS NOT ALWAYS THE OWNER OF THE GARAGE ON LA PALOMA LANE. AT ONE POINT, HE WAS IN THE SERVICE.
AFTER WHICH HE MARRIED THE LOVELY MARGARET AND SETTLED INTO THE LIFE OF SHOP OWNER. BUT ALAS, IT WAS NOT TO LAST. MARGARET PASSED AWAY LEAVING ED ALL ALONE...AND DRINKING.
RUMOUR HAS IT THAT HE EVEN DRANK WITH LUCILLE BALL...
HE DRANK SO MUCH THAT HE HAD NO NEED TO GET DRESSED IN THE MORNING. HE WOULD JUST MEANDER AROUND ALL DAY IN HIS NIGHT SHIRT...
EVENTUALLY HIS DRINKING AND DISPAIR LED TO HEALTH PROBLEMS. HIS DOCTOR WARNED HIM..."JUST ONE MORE DRINK ED, AND YOUR LIVER WILL GIVE OUT ON YOU!"
ED'S LIFE WAS EMPTY. HE WAS A MISERABLE OLD COOT WITH NOTHING TO HIS NAME BUT HIS RUN DOWN GARAGE
UNTIL ONE DAY...
AND ED WENT BACK TO DRINKING...
BUT THE YOUNG CHICO INVIGORATED ED, GIVING HIM A NEW SENSE OF FREEDOM. ED FOUND HIMSELF BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS AND TAKING BETTER CARE OF HIMSELF...
ED WAS READY TO BURST UPON THE WORLD ONCE MORE...HE EVEN STARTED DATING AGAIN
LEAVING POOR CHICO TO DO ALL THE WORK AT THE GARAGE. CHICO PLEADED WITH ED TO COME BACK AND HELP RUN THE BUSINESS
ED EVENTUALLY CAME BACK AND CONTINUED TO BE CHICO'S FATHER-FIGURE AND MENTOR...
BUT ED WAS STILL NOT WITHOUT HIS FAULTS. HE STILL HAD A NASTY TEMPER, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT CAME TO FREE-LOADING GYPSIES...
AND OBSCENE GRAFITTI ON THE WALL OF HIS GARAGE THAT NONE OF THEM COULD MAKE HEADS OR TAILS OUT OF.
ED STAYED JUST AS GRUMPY AS ALWAYS EVEN THOUGH CHICO TALKED TO HIM TILL HE WAS BLUE IN THE FACE...
BUT EVEN ED WOULD HAVE TO ADMIT...HE WAS A LITTLE LESS LONELY
THIS PAGE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT JACK ALBERTSON. IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU SIR...WE PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE HAD FREDDIE WITH US AS LONG AS WE DID. THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR HIM WHEN WE COULDN'T.
